{"id":23071,"date":"2011-05-09T06:26:04","date_gmt":"2011-05-09T13:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=23071"},"modified":"2011-05-09T06:26:10","modified_gmt":"2011-05-09T13:26:10","slug":"learning-to-read-with-dude-and-betty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=23071","title":{"rendered":"Learning To Read With Dude And Betty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/dude_book.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/dude_book.jpg','popup','width=197,height=252,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/dude_book-tm.jpg\" height=\"255\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Dude Book\" \/><\/a>Learning to read has never been so rad, thanks to <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.harpercollins.com\/authors\/35316\/Lisa_Pliscou\/index.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Lisa Pliscou<\/a><\/strong> and illustrator <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.harpercollins.com\/authors\/35353\/Tom_Dunne\/index.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Tom Dunne&#8217;s<\/a><\/strong> new book <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0061756903\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=sacklunch&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0061756903\" target=\"_blank\">Dude: Fun with Dude and Betty<\/a><\/em><\/strong> published by <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.harpercollins.com\/books\/Dude-Lisa-Pliscou?isbn=9780061756900&amp;HCHP=TB_Dude\" target=\"_blank\">Harper Collins<\/a><\/strong>. <em>Publisher&#8217;s Weekly<\/em> says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Pliscou mimes the sincere voice and meticulous punctuation of an easy reader (\u201cSee Dude surf. Whoa! Look at Dude surf. Surf, Dude, surf\u201d). Her humor arises from unexpected vocabulary (\u201cStokaboka!\u201d), paired with earnest illustrations of Dude hanging 10, wiping out, and visiting a taco stand for a \u201cbodacious burrito\u201d\u2014things Dick and Jane never dreamed of.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The book is aimed at kids four to eight, but it looks like Dude would be good on any coffee table. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0061756903\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=sacklunch&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0061756903\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to buy it<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learning to read has never been so rad, thanks to Lisa Pliscou and illustrator Tom Dunne&#8217;s new book Dude: Fun with Dude and Betty published by Harper Collins. Publisher&#8217;s Weekly says: Pliscou mimes the sincere voice and meticulous punctuation of an easy reader (\u201cSee Dude surf. Whoa! Look at Dude surf. Surf, Dude, surf\u201d). Her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23071"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23071"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23072,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23071\/revisions\/23072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}